The German Post Office in Zanzibar
About this Event

Introduction:

The presentation will give a short introduction of Zanzibar itself, cover the postal situation in the 19th century with the British/Indian and French Post Offices and why the Germans opened one as well. Then I will present the German PO - the stamps and postmarks used, the types of mail and show some special mail items. I will close with the Heligoland/Zanzibar Treaty which brought the German PO to an end.

Biography:

Harald Krieg, 54 years old and a stamp collector since childhood being introduced to stamps through my mother and grew up in the South of German at the Swiss Border and live now since over 20 years in Neuss/Germany.

By the age of 14, I decided that I needed to collect something different to what all the others did and started with Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Today I specialise in British and German East Africa and all postal territories thereafter forming today's Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Due to my collecting interests I travelled many times to East Africa as well as the rest of the continent and am addicted to it.

I have been a member of The East Africa Study Circle (UK) and am currently it's Chairman.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London and one of the Representatives looking after our members across Germany.